August 1946 Dhaka (East Bengal, then East Pakistan, and now Bangladesh):
Rabindranath Ghosh, a resident of Dhaka, related these incidents to the author in person: “About five six days after…
February 10, 1950 East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh): Prof. Jatin Das’s Story Prof Jatin Das, who originally lived in Sylhet, got a job in Kishorgung College as a Philosophy Prof. He…
1950 East Pakistan (now Bangladesh):
The following accounts are taken by Lila Ray, a leader of Indai’s freedom movement and published in the Bengali magazine “Jayasri”:
February 8, 10, and…
1950 February Muladi, Barishal, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh): Muladi is a significant river port. Here there are huge unimaginable killing of Hindus happened. In Muladi and around the village like…
February 17, 1950 East Pakistan (now Bangladesh): Zaminder (Landlord) Vidyanath’s house: When they saw the Muslim gang entering the house compound, they went to the rooftop and started pelting stone…
By KL Wagoner
When you began translating Noakhali 1946, what did you hope to accomplish? By the end of the journey, do you feel you were successful in your goals? By…
Here it is on the rise of Islam in Mecca; this is in no way comprehensive or nuanced, neither it is perfect. It is merely an overview of the rise…
Shaykh Jalauddin Tabrizi (1226 or 1244) and Shaykh Shah Jalal (1347) were the greatest Sufi saints of Bengal. Shaykh Jalauddin Tabrizi came in Bengal after Bhaktiyar Khilji conquered Bengal defeating…
Historian Richard Eaton talks of Pir Ma’bari Khandaya who came to the Deccan as a holy warrior:
“During the period of Ala al-Din Khalaji (Alauddin Khilji, d, 1316), the Shah…
In the Islamic world Jahiliya is a place of ignorance, before the coming of Islamic in Arabia. This is how the text books in Pakistan are portraying their thousands of…
A significant proportion of male black slaves were castrated and used in Muslim lands as eunuchs, to guard the harems and serve as attendants at holy sites such as the…
There was widespread castration of slaves in Bengal during Mughal Emperor Jahangir, which had become a widespread practice in India. It appears that since Bhaktiyar Khilji’s conquest of Bengal in…